Mental
Why did Toni Morrison write before sunrise?
For years, Toni Morrison worked a full-time editing job and raised two sons alone. She didn't have long stretches of free time to write. So she wrote before dawn, in the hours before her children woke up. That constraint became her secret.
I am not able to write regularly. I have never been able to do that.— Toni Morrison
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The thinker
Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was an American novelist, editor, and professor whose works like Beloved and Song of Solomon reshaped American literature.
Based on Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134 — The Paris Review, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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